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Utopia: De optimo reip. statu, deque nova insula Utopia libellus… Epigrammata [with]...

Utopia: De optimo reip. statu, deque nova insula Utopia libellus… Epigrammata [with] Desiderius Erasmus. Epigrammata.

MORE, Sir Thomas.

Basel: Johann Froben, March 1518.

Three parts in one volume, small quarto, in Roman, Greek, and 'Utopian' types (there is a page of the Utopian alphabet); full-page woodcut bird's-eye map of the island, three fine title surrounds (to Utopia, More's Epigrams and Erasmus' Epigrams) with another surround to the first...

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In somnium Scipionis expositio. Saturnalia

In somnium Scipionis expositio. Saturnalia.

MACROBIUS, Ambrosius Theodosius.

Brescia: Boninus de Boninis, 1483.

Small folio (302 x 198mm), 191 leaves (initial blank leaf discarded), with seven diagrams and a world map within the text; capital spaces blank; a fine, large copy in handsome Regency russia leather, sides richly tooled in gilt and blind with anthemion and scroll motifs...

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The Wreck of 'The Hereward' Maroubra Beach, Sydney

The Wreck of 'The Hereward' Maroubra Beach, Sydney.

CLARKE, M.

circa 1898.

Watercolour, 18.2 x 54 cms. mounted and framed.

The Maroubra Beach shipwreck

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Stirpes Novæ, aut minus cognitæ, quas descriptionibus et iconibus illustravit

Stirpes Novæ, aut minus cognitæ, quas descriptionibus et iconibus illustravit.

L'HERITIER DE BRUTELLE, Charles Louis.

Paris: Paris Philip-Dionysius Pieres (part-titles add: sold by Louis-Nicolas Prevost, Paris; Peter Elmsley, London; and Rudolph Gräffer, Vienna and Leipzig), 1784-1791.

6 parts in 1 volume, folio, (510 x 355 mm); with a general title-page, six part-titles (each with one or two woodcut vignettes) and 91 engraved plates (two double-page)...

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De Monarchia Hispanica. Editio novissima, aucta & emendata ut praefatio ad lectorem indicat

De Monarchia Hispanica. Editio novissima, aucta & emendata ut praefatio ad lectorem indicat.

CAMPANELLA, Tommaso.

Amsterdam: Louis Elzevir, 1653.

24mo., engraved title, all edges gilt; in nineteenth-century full red morocco, gilt arms of Henry J.B. Clements on front cover, spine banded and gilt.

Build a wall "lest the English should break in and bring heresy."

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Globe Artificiel et Mécanique a l'Usage du Petit Geographe&hellip

Globe Artificiel et Mécanique a l'Usage du Petit Geographe…

LEGRAND, Augustin.

Paris: c. 1830.

A collapsible engraved and handcoloured globe in six gores (170 mm. tall); protected by the original lithographed portfolio, 8 folding pages of text; with loose double-sided engraved and hand-coloured card 'Mécanisme du Glode Artificiel'; a very good and attractive example.

Charming French collapsible globe, with accompanying booklet

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A catalogue of the animals of North America. Containing, an enumeration of the known quadrupeds,...

A catalogue of the animals of North America. Containing, an enumeration of the known quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fish, insects, crustaceous...

FORSTER, Johann Reinhold.

London: B. White, 1771.

Octavo, with an engraved frontispiece; a delightful copy in its original binding of unlettered speckled sheep.

Forster's how-to on collecting: a primer for Cook's second voyage

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A New Dictionary of Natural History; or, Compleat Universal Display or Animated Nature. With...

A New Dictionary of Natural History; or, Compleat Universal Display or Animated Nature. With Accurate Representations of the Most Curious...

[MAVOR, William Fordyce] MARTYN, William Frederick.

London: Harrison & Co., 1785.

Two volumes, folio, with 100 handcoloured engraved plates (most incorporating from four to eight images); title-pages printed in black and red; contemporary marbled calf, very skilfully rebacked to match, preserving original red and green labels.

The Leverian and beyond: natural history for the popular market

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Choix de voyages dans les Quatre Parties du Monde&hellip

Choix de voyages dans les Quatre Parties du Monde…

MACCARTHY, J.

Paris: Dabo and Masson, 1823.

15 volumes, duodecimo, with numerous folding maps & plates; contemporary half calf.

Miniature voyage collection, with a Freycinet section

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"Portrait of Sr. Joseph Banks. President of the Royal Society" (early caption

"Portrait of Sr. Joseph Banks. President of the Royal Society" (early caption).

[BANKS] PETTY, A.S. (Amelia Susannah).

England: circa 1795-1800.

Pastel on paper backed onto linen 62 x 50cm; in the original gilt frame and glass.

An unrecorded version of Banks's favourite portrait, by the daughter of a friend

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Major works from a private collection

Major works from a private collection

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A hand-picked and extra-illustrated copy of the atlas of engravings for the official account of...

A hand-picked and extra-illustrated copy of the atlas of engravings for the official account of the second voyage ("A Voyage...

[COOK: SECOND VOYAGE] COOK, James.

London: Engravings printed by Boydell for the publishers Strahan and Cadell, 1777.

Large folio atlas, with the full complement of 64 charts and plates published to accompany the voyage account and two extras (see below), some folding, the smaller plates mounted to size; in a very good modern quarter calf...

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Description of the anatomy of the ornithorhyncus hystrix... From the Philosophical Transactions

Description of the anatomy of the ornithorhyncus hystrix... From the Philosophical Transactions.

HOME, Everard.

London: W. Bulmer and Co., 1802.

Quarto, 19 pp. and four large folding plates; contemporary (? original) neat quarter red roan binding.

The earliest scientific notice of the echidna, in a special author's pre-issue

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A View of the Hulks, at Woolwich in Kent, with some of the Convicts heaving up Ballast, and...

A View of the Hulks, at Woolwich in Kent, with some of the Convicts heaving up Ballast, and others on...

[THAMES HULKS]

London: Printed & Sold by Carington Bowles, Published as the Act directs, 24 June 1779.

Handcoloured engraving, 360 x 505 mm. in fine original condition, mounted and framed.

Convict Hulks on the Thames

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Shipping on the Yarra

Shipping on the Yarra

ASHTON, Julian.

Melbourne: c.1880.

Watercolour on paper, 355 x 540mm, mounted and framed; signed lower right.

The Yarra River in Dawn Light.

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Strabonis rerum Geographicarum Libri XVII

Strabonis rerum Geographicarum Libri XVII.

STRABO (Strabo of Amasia).

Amsterdam: Joannes Wolters, 1707.

Folio, with a fine engraved title-page, parallel text in Greek and Latin in double columns; well-preserved contemporary vellum, spine elegantly lettered in ink with in gilt ornament between raised bands, covers ornately gilt with complex central emblematic device.

The best edition of Strabo's "colossal work"

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The Waratah: Embothrium Speciosissimum

The Waratah: Embothrium Speciosissimum

[SMITH] SOWERBY, James

London: Published by J. Sowerby & Co, 1793.

Hand coloured engraved plate, 235 x 170mm, mounted and in a handsome nineteenth century timber frame.

The first engraved image of the magnificent waratah

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Shipping in Sydney Harbour, Government House & Fort Macquarie

Shipping in Sydney Harbour, Government House & Fort Macquarie.

[SYDNEY] UNKNOWN ARTIST.

Sydney: circa 1850.

Oil on artists' board, 139 x 291 mm.

Government House and Fort Macquarie from the Harbour

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